Denville Township

Denville Township is a township in Morris County, New Jersey. The area was included in the Elizabethtown Tract purchase of 1664, and thhe township was named for one of the purchasers, Daniel Denton. The earliest settlers arrived in 1690, consisting of Dutch and English settlers from Long Island, Quakers from Philadelphia, and Germans. From 1730 to 1760, forges and mills were built. The township was incorporated on 14 April 1913, and the township had a population of 16,735 people in 2016.